News brands have become chips to play to acquire movie assets, says Semafor's Ben Smith
CNBC Television·2025-12-11 12:57
Joining us to break all this down uh with his perspective on it is Ben Smith, Semaphore, co-founder and editor-in-chief. Good morning. >> Morning. >> Okay, so let's try to figure this out. First of all, let's just go with the Trump of it all. >> Yeah. >> And the CNN piece because that's sort of a new wrinkle in the saga. Do we think that now no matter who buys this thing that even if the Ellison's ultimately buy the completed asset, the full thing that they're going to have to sell CNN that he doesn't seem ...